Birstall Preschool
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Batley for babies from 3 months up to school age, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. £45.00 a day for 0-4 years, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in October 2022. Open since 2010, with 44 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Full-Day Care 07:30-18:00 £45.00
One published rate, dated September 2021. What you pay depends on the days you need and the funded hours you can claim.
Funded hours
Two/Three/Four-year funding 15 hours; Three/Four year funding 30 hours; also registered to claim funding for 2 year olds.
Worth knowing. Wrap around available at £5.50 Per Hour, rounded up to the next hour; Wrap around available at £2.75 for the additional half hour; limited spaces £3 dinner & snack charge/bring a packed lunch.
What childcare usually costs in Kirklees
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Kirklees from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
WF17 9DXWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 5 October 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
The manager has a clear vision for the setting with a detailed understanding for the curriculum intent. Staff plan a broad and sequenced curriculum, which reflects children's interests and builds on what they already know and can do. Children are happy to be at the setting. They feel safe in the care of the kind and nurturing staff. These warm relationships and children's sense of security are evident across the setting, and especially so in the baby room. Staff working with these very young children understand the importance of lots of smiles and cuddles. They know how the reassurance of familiar faces contributes to babies' sense of belonging. Throughout the nursery, there are lots of happy and confident children, who thoroughly enjoy their play and learning.
Children use their imaginations in the well-resourced role-play areas. They play in the mud kitchen and talk about the pies which they have made. Children are delighted as they fill pans with soil and bark mixture, and stir the soil with real kitchen utensils. Later, with staff's support, they turn the large outdoor tyre into a pirate ship and become pirates. Children learn new words, such as 'freezing' and
'icy', as they pretend to jump in the sea.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- consider how children's use of dummies can be reduced even more to further enhance their developing communication and language skills n encourage children's independence during mealtimes, with regard to providing and using cutlery.
- 5 October 2022Good
- 19 January 2017Good
- 27 September 2012Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Birstall Preschool
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- Is £45.00 a day still the rate? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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